Obsession

An Alex Delaware Novel

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 12 hrs

Publisher's summary

Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at 19, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help.

Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware follows a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Then, a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets, and bodies, are buried.

Dramatic, action-packed, and filled with psychological detail that only Jonathan Kellerman can provide, Obsession is a whodunit, a whydunit, and something unique: a did-it-ever-happen. This is Kellerman at his heart-racing best.

Psyched? Listen to all of Jonathan Kellerman's Dr. Alex Delaware thrillers.

©2007 Plotline, Inc. (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a Division of Random House, Inc.

I really liked it

I have got most of Kellermans books and injoyed them all

Might have been better as a hardcopy

This is one which might have been better abridged or as a hardcopy book. The audiobook was way too long for the story and at times was hard to follow with all the characters and the slow moving plot line. (Would have moved faster in the abridged version!). Not one of the most thrilling thrillers I've come across in a while.

Obsession - review

Engaging story - narrator does poor girl voices. Not exactly a mystery novel. The author is indulgent in his leaps to conclusions conveniently supported by subsequent evidence. Entertaining nevertheless.

A little weak

Great book overall, plotting, etc...but in comparison to his others, a bit weak in character development of new characters, motive and hook. Alex and Milo are always wonderful, tho.

Obsession (unabridged)

Like a previous reviewer, I felt that this novel would have been more enjoyable in the abridged version. Not a page-turner, but OK.

Obsession

I found this book very interesting although a little hard to follow on the first listen so I went through it twice. I found the narrator very interesting with his many voices depicting different characters in this rather playlike written book.
Exciting finish to a rather tame investigation.

as usual mr. kellerman your Alex Delaware and your

hello Sturgis are endearing and lovable and such wonderful characters even the people that are less than reputable you become entangled in their life.thank you so much for giving us Alex Delaware and all his cronies you're the best Mr. kellerman

Take your time and enjoy

In a world of instant gratification the graphic prose of Mr. Kellerman could be misconstrued as slow or long winded. But in the world of anticipated pleasure savoring each description and placing value on the visualizations is a welcome diversion. Why would you want to listen a shortened version and miss the observations of doctor Delaware as he describes each character? That is the delight of reading or in this case listening. So if you like fast food or eat so fast that you do not savor the food don't listen, but don't complain because you did not enjoy the meal.

Very enjoyable!!

This book keeps you listening. The twists and turns keep the reader looking for the obsession, which there are many.

History and Connections

Alex Delaware is contacted by a young woman he saw as a child. Her mother has made something of a death bed confession to her biological niece/ adopted daughter about someone who was killed in one of the family's old neighborhood's. Alex and Milo begin an informal investigation for the daughter Lucy in order to disprove the confession. Soon the connections between Lucy, her mother and a family her mother once worked for.The cast of characters from this family present with far more issues than even a therapist like Alex Delaware could treat. Then there are the various characters connected to that family however tenuously and images of The Celestine Prophecy meets The Silence of the Lambs come to mind. Add in one Private Detective to the Stars and a couple of Midwestern religious cult member lesbians turned porn stars and it is an all star cast of characters. In the climatic scene Milo faces a psychopath; when Alex hears shots his first instinct is to run to his friends aid. "I jumped out went running back to protect my friend; with what? a nice change from entertainment stories when some idiot pulls a stupid move and gets away with it. This one got the full five stars from me despite some seemingly implausible situations. Of course this is So Cal we're talking about so maybe nothing can be labeled implausible. In the up and down of the Alex Delaware novels this is the one of the up novels.